88-442 Decision Science in Intergroup Conflict

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

A conventional course on decision science tackles the biases and heuristics that affect individual decisionmaking. This course will highlight biases and heuristics in an intergroup rather than individual context, and in times of uncertainty or insecurity e.g. conflict rather than times of stability. Themes to be covered include intergroup identities,perceptions, emotions, attributions, empathy, moral judgments, sacred values and parochial altruism. The course will draw on a variety of scientific methods e.g. field lab experiments, fMRI, and psychophysiology and disciplinary approaches e.g. decision science, anthropology, socialcognitivecultural psychology, and political science. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the relevance of research findings for everyday life.

Prerequisites: none listed

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